Isolde
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Isolde is a mercurial character, and Ms. Davidsen expressed her simmering rage, her girlish flirtatiousness, and her serenity in the “Liebestod.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Written in 1946 by a young French composer released from a Nazi prison camp, the hourlong song cycle for very dramatic soprano and piano reimagines Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as exotic Peruvian lovers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
Later, the cast re-enacts the medieval story of the star-crossed Tristan and Isolde.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
She became the second Italian skier to win the women’s super-G world title, after Isolde Kostner won back-to-back golds in the mid-1990s.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
Tristan und Isolde is an out-and-out masterpiece, with sweeping, yearning themes, deserving of its place in music’s pantheon, whatever it may or may not have innovated.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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